Biography

 Yang Liu received B.E. degree in July 1998, in Electronic and Information Engineering Department from Zhejiang University, China, and M.S. degree in April 2002, in Computer Science Department from University of Regina, Canada. His master's thesis was "Progressive Wavelet Volume Rendering", which was focused on 3D volume compression and visualization.

He started his Ph.D under the supervision of Dr. Alan C. Bovik from Fall 2002. His interests include image processing, compression, and visualization. He likes soccer and swimming. He has another weird interest: Beijing Opera.